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On Saturday 7th July 2012, for one afternoon only, a special kind of performance took place. Audiences were invited to cut across the long grassy meadows, walk through the columns of tall trees and watch the performance unfold in Morden Hall Park.
Land has been created by three professional choreographers; Charlotte Spencer, Janine Harrington and Vanessa Cook, who worked with 30 young people from south London. This dance piece celebrates the individuality of each performer and their desire to move.
Commissioned by Siobhan Davies Dance for The Making Space youth programme, with support from Candoco Dance Company and in partnership with the National Trust.

Nomad director, Michael Smythe, Margaret Cox and Sarah Beydoun from the Teesdale & Hollybush Residents Association introduce, and take visitors on a tour of, the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve and wider growing projects across the estate. Includes discussion of residents’ ambition to become self-sufficient. The talk was held at the Phytology site in Bethnal Green, London on 18 May 2014.
This event is part of Seeding the City a programme of talks across two weekends in May and June curated in partnership with Siobhan Davies Dance, Nomad and held as part of London Festival of Architecture 2014.

Ackroyd & Harvey discuss the special freedom an artist has to work across boundaries and make powerful, though often subtle statements in an increasingly managed environment.
The artists speak with reference to their large-scale organic architectural interventions, focussing on those created in London:Dilston Grove, Fly Tower and History Trees(commissioned for the Olympic Park). The celebrated duo also introduce ideas bound up in their long-term project, Beuys' Acorns.
This event is part of Seeding the City a programme of talks across two weekends in May and June curated in partnership with Nomad and held as part of London Festival of Architecture 2014.
This event is part of Seeding the City, a programme of talks across two weekends in May and June curated in partnership with Nomad and held as part of London Festival of Architecture 2014 and Siobhan Davies Dance Human-Nature programme.

Professor Monique Simmonds explores the on-going value of wild plants and traditional knowledge for the advancement of contemporary medicine. Professor Simmonds presents the complexities of health-giving properties of plant species in a local and international context. The talk was held at the Phytology site in Bethnal Green, London on 17 May 2014.
This event is part of Seeding the City a programme of talks across two weekends in May and June curated in partnership with Siobhan Davies Dance, Nomad and held as part of London Festival of Architecture 2014.

Seeding the City talks program
Phytology Site, Bethnal Green, 17 May 2014
Nomad director, Michael Smythe, ethnobotanist, Peter Giovannini (Kew) and illustrator, Talya Baldwin introduce the Phytology site at Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, where artists and botanists have sown 32 species of common plants in order to explore the useful properties of wild plants and weeds common to urban environments.
This event is part of the Siobhan Davies Dance Human-Nature programme and Seeding the City a programme of talks across two weekends in May and June curated in partnership with Siobhan Davies Dance, Nomad and held as part of London Festival of Architecture.

Seeding the City talks program
Phytology Site, Bethnal Green, 17 May 2014
Herbalist, Melissa Ronaldson demonstrates the medicinal application of a range of local plant species.
This event is part of the Siobhan Davies Dance Human-Nature programme and Seeding the City a programme of talks across two weekends in May and June curated in partnership with Siobhan Davies Dance, Nomad and held as part of London Festival of Architecture.

Seeding the City talks program
Phytology Site, Bethnal Green, 18 May 2014
Keeper of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and Ackroyd Drive Green Local Nature Reserve, Ken Greenway discusses the benefits of biodiverse urban ecosystems.
This event is part of the Siobhan Davies Dance Human-Nature programme and Seeding the City a programme of talks across two weekends in May and June curated in partnership with Siobhan Davies Dance, Nomad and held as part of London Festival of Architecture.

On a very wet and windy day in October, guerrilla gardener Richard Reynolds and movement artist Simon Whitehead gave a short talk to reflect on the Mobile Meadow project and distributed specially made seed packets designed in partnership with Kew Gardens Grow Wild programme. These packets contained seeds harvested from the mobile meadow and we hope to keep the meadow alive by re planting in the spring.
Film by Lucie Sheppard

Britain’s leading environmental campaigner, Tony Juniper discusses the services Nature performs for us, from the provision of water and food to the atmosphere and environment which sustains and protects us. Speaking with reference to his newly published book What has Nature ever done for us? - Why money really does grow on trees, Juniper focuses on the idea of Natural Capital and its critical importance to us. Introduced and chaired by Sue Illman, President of the Landscape Institute.
This event is in association with the Landscape Institute and is part of Seeding the City a programme of talks across two weekends in May and June curated in partnership with Nomad and held as part of London Festival of Architecture 2014 and Siobhan Davies Dance Human-Nature programme.

Professor Monique Simmonds explores the on-going value of wild plants and traditional knowledge for the advancement of contemporary medicine. Professor Simmonds presents the complexities of health-giving properties of plant species in a local and international context. The talk was held at the Phytology site in Bethnal Green, London on 17 May 2014.
This event is part of Seeding the City a programme of talks across two weekends in May and June curated in partnership with Siobhan Davies Dance, Nomad and held as part of London Festival of Architecture 2014.

The Garden Bridge Talk with Joanna Lumley, Thomas Heatherwick and Dan Pearson, chaired by Paul Morrell.
In their first joint public talk at Siobhan Davies Studios on 26 June 2014, Pearson, Heatherwick and Lumley discussed the concepts behind London’s first Garden Bridge. Connecting Temple station and the Strand to the South Bank, the bridge designed by Thomas Heatherwick and landscaped by Dan Pearson, will provide a stunning new public garden across the Thames.
This event is part of Seeding the City a programme of talks across two weekends in May and June curated in partnership with Siobhan Davies Dance, Nomad and held as part of London Festival of Architecture 2014.

The Mobile Meadow Seedling Walk began from two locations;
The Mobile Gardeners Park and Siobhan Davies Studios on the 29th June 2014.
For three months the Meadow has been quietly growing in pots and beds in and around Elephant & Castle.
As the plants came into flower, Movement Artist Simon Whitehead and Guerrilla Gardener Richard Reynolds invited participants to take a silent choreographed walk with them to 'Mobilise the Meadow'. En-route they planted a Guerrilla Meadow in the heart of Elephant & Castle.
This walk was part of 'Human Nature: Art, horticulture & choreography across the growing season' curated by Alison Proctor and Vicky Long.

A live work by choreographer Siobhan Davies, made with solo dance artist, Helka Kaski, 8-11 May 2014 at Turner Contemporary.
Kaski invites audience members to help her carry out a familiar action by giving her a series of verbal instructions, for example standing up from a lying-down position. As they work together to complete the task, it becomes clear that what at first may appear easy, is actually complex and extraordinary, often causing amusement and bemusement.
Film by Mark Castro and Max Philo

This was The Mobile Meadow seeding event, held at Siobhan Davies Studios and the Mobile Gardener's Park with Richard Reynolds on the 29 &30 March 2014.
There is still an opportunity to plant more wildflowers, so please get in touch with Robyn at Siobhan Davies Dance on robync@siobhandavies.com

Table of Contents: A live installation exploring memory and presence of movement, co-created by Siobhan Davies, Andrea Buckley, Helka Kaski, Rachel Krische, Charlie Morrissey and Matthias Sperling.
Six artists perform a total of sixteen overlapping sections for up to six hours a day.
http://www.siobhandavies.com/

Thursday 18 March 2010
Carsten Nicolai, Blixa Bargeld, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter and Ben Borthwick (moderator)
A group of artists, who started their careers in the 1970s and 1980s and work simultaneously in different artistic genres, discuss their experiences, focusing on music, poetry and the visual arts.

The Imperfect Body, Challenging the culture of beauty. This event took place at Siobhan Davies Studios on Thursday 1st March 2007. Pictured in the footage: Jonathan Burrows, Tim Etchells, Adrian Heathfield and Kate McIntosh.

Why Patterns?, Standing up for the abstract in a post-modern world. This took place at Siobhan Davies Studios on Thursday 15th March 2007. Pictured in the footage: Jonathan Burrows, Siobhan Davies and Matteo Fargion.

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